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My 1980s & other essays, Wayne Koestenbaum

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My 1980s & other essays, Wayne Koestenbaum

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My 1980s & other essays

Oclc number

812252593

Responsibility statement

Wayne Koestenbaum

Summary

"A new book of essays by the cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, author of The Queen's Throat and Jackie Under My Skin"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

I. My 1980s -- Heidegger's mistress -- Advice to the young -- Anna Moffo's funeral. II. Susan Sontag, Cosmophage -- In defense of nuance -- A manual approach to mourning -- Hart Crane's gorgeousness -- Frank O'Hara's excitement -- John Ashbery's lazy Susan -- Dear Sigmund Freud -- Roberto Bolaño's tone -- Elizabeth Hardwick's sentences -- Epitaph on twenty-third street. III. Privacy in the films of Lana Turner -- The rape of Rusty -- Cary Grant nude -- Brigitte Bardot shopping in shorts -- A woman alone in her room -- www.MyPornEssay.com. IV. On doodles, drawings, pathetic erotic errands, and writing -- Fag limbo -- Why art is always emotional -- Situation hacker -- Eric's stubble -- Cindy Sherman and her kind -- Diane Arbus and humiliation -- Figure -- Warhol's interviews -- The inner life of the palette knife -- Schuyler's colors. V. Debbie Harry at the supermarket -- A brief history of reinvention -- I went by a devious route --- Notes on affinity -- The pump: notes toward a theory of shininess and stupefaction. VI. Play-Doh fun factory poetics -- Assignments - The desire to write

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My nineteen eighties

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